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GUPF AND'SLEEV-E HOLDER AND ADJUSTER.

No. 312,032. Patented'Feb. 10,1885.

UNTTE STATES PATENT OTETQE.

JOHN D. SOURWIN E AND JACOB A. CARPENTER, OF BRAZIL, IND., ASSIGNORS TO THE MODEL CUFF ADJUSTING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CUFF AND SLEEVE HOLDER AND ADJUSTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,032, dated February 10, 1885.

Application filed November 24, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOHN D. SOURWINE and JACOB A. CARPENTER, of Brazil, Clay county, State of Indiana, have invented an Improvement in Cuff and Sleeve Holders and Adjusters, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings'representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to improve and simplify the construction of cuff and sleeve holders, whereby the same may be more readily manipulated,the said devices being adapted to serve for connection with a cuff or sleeve of either arm.

Our invention consists, essentially, of a bar provided at one end with a clamp orjaw and at its other end with a pivoted button, the

. former engaging the sleeve and the latter e11- tering the button-hole of the cuff; also, in a cuff-holder, a clasp provided with oppositelyextended jaws to grasp the material of a sleeve at either side of the center-line of the bar of the holder, as will be described.

Figure 1 represents our improved cuff holder and adjuster applied to cuff and sleeve as in use, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the said holder. v

Our improved holder or adjuster is comgo posed, essentially, ofa bar, a, one end of which is bent or turned at right angles,-as at a, and

serves to sustain a pivot, 011 which may turn the button or shoe 1), to occupy positions such as shown in full and dotted lines.

The particular shape of the button or shoe b is not material; nor is it material as to the exact manner of pivoting the button on the said bar, for the button or shoe may be pivoted in any manner common to sleeve-buttons and 0 studs having hinged shoes.

The pivotal shoe or button enables the same to be readily entered into the button-hole. The other part of the holder is a clamp having one fixed jaw, c, and one movable jaw, d, the

5 latter being pivoted at 2, so as to co-operate with the jaw c, the two jaws having between them a spiral spring, by which to. normally keep the serrated edges of the said clamp pressed together. The acting portions of the jaws are of peculiar shape, for in addition to the usual serrated portion at the end of the clamp we employ laterally-extended portions 3 4., which are also serrated to grasp the material more firmly, one of the said jaws co-op: crating with a left and the other with a right sleeve. I

The clamp will in practice engage one or the other side of the slit in the sleeve back from the wristband, one or the other side of the said clamp being operative with the sleeve, according to which sleeve the cuff is to be attached.

Aside from the shape of the serrated portions of the clamp, all the parts thereof are common to the clamps used for garment-sup- 6 ports.

Our improved clamp has three serrated portionsviz., one at the end and two at the sides-each portion being adapted to engage a portion of the sleeve or other article next to it.

WVe claim-- 1. In a cuff holder and adjuster, the bar a, having the right-angular projection at one end, and the shoe 1), pivoted on the said projection, combined with the pivoted spring-actuated 7 5 clamping-plate (Z, al 1 substantially as described.

2. In a cuff holder and adjuster, the bar bent at one end and provided with the pivoted button or shoe, combined with a clamp having serrated jaws at both side edges thereg of, to engage a sleeve at the right or left of the said bar, substantially as described.

3. The cuff-holder having at one end a clamp provided with serrated end jaw and serrated side jaws, and at its other end with a pivoted 3 shoe, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN D. SOURW'INE. JACOB A. CARPENTER.

\Vitnesses to Sourwine:

W. H. SIGsToN, B. J. NoYEs. Witnesses to Carpenter:

W. E. CARPENTER, J. N. SoURwINE. 

